Tetra Pak to invest Euro 90 million in Pakistan, Euro 30 million in Brazil to meet growing dairy and beverage dem
Tetra Pak today announced it will invest Euro 90 million to build a new stateof-the-art packaging material factory in Pakistan and Euro 30 million in leading edge printing and laminating technologies at its packaging materials plant in Monte Mor, Brazil to meet growing demand in the dairy and beverage industry.
“These investments demonstrate our continuing commitment to support our customers around the world with best-in-class packaging and processing systems, thus ensuring faster delivery, better quality, greater convenience and increased flexibility,” said Alejandro Anavi, Executive Vice President Supply Chain Operations, Tetra Pak.
The new plant in Pakistan, will have an initial capacity of 8 billion packages per year, with the possibility of doubling to 16 billion packages, such as the Tetra Brik Aseptic (TBA) and Tetra Fino Aseptic (TFA). It will be Tetra Pak’s largest facility in the Middle East region for the production of packaging material for liquid food products. Whilst its main role will be to supply customers in Pakistan, it will also export to other countries in the region.
Ground-breaking for the new factory is planned for the third quarter of 2008, with the start of commercial production during the second half of 2010.
The technology upgrade at Tetra Pak’s Monte Mor plant includes two key elements: a stateof-the-art laminator and a new FlexoProcess printing line, which will offer higher quality and more flexible production choices for customers. The new technologies will increase printing and lamination capacity by 25% - up from the current capacity of about 10 billion packages/year .
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For more information please contact:
- Linda Bernier, Director Corporate PR, Tetra Pak, +39 348 145 4229
- Liddy Chillcott, GolinHarris for Tetra Pak, + 44 20 7067 0616